Archive / 2010–2017
Lucene/Solr
Revolution.
For eight years Lucidworks hosted the conference for the open source search community. It ran in Boston, San Diego, Austin, Washington D.C., Las Vegas, and across Europe. In 2018 it became Activate, the Search & AI Conference.
Looking for lucenerevolution.org?
The conference site went offline after the 2018 rebrand. Nothing was lost. The sessions, slides, and recordings moved to lucidworks.com and to the conference YouTube channel, and this page is where the old links now point.
If you arrived from an old post, press release, or slide deck, everything below is what you were after.
Where the talks live now.
Keynotes, committer panels, and case studies from Bloomberg, the National Institutes of Health, and hundreds of others.
Slides and video
Revolution 2013, San Diego
The full set of decks and recordings from the San Diego program.
Open the archiveVideo
Revolution 2016, Boston
Session recordings from the last Boston edition, gathered in one post.
Watch the sessionsFull channel
Every year on YouTube
The conference channel, still carrying talks from across the run.
Browse the channelThe one everyone asks for
Stump the Chump
Chris Hostetter taking unseen Solr questions live, with no preparation.
Watch it“The Revolution has been won.”
In 2018 the conference widened past open source search to cover applied AI, and took a new name: Activate, the Search & AI Conference.
Read the announcementWhere we are now.
The work the Revolution covered carries on in the Lucidworks blog, where the research, talks, and community writing still land.
Apache Lucene and Apache Solr are projects of the Apache Software Foundation. Lucidworks hosted the Lucene Revolution and Lucene/Solr Revolution conferences from 2010 to 2017 and has hosted Activate since 2018.